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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-06-16
EXCURSIONS, PIC-NICS, &c.
SwIFT PALACE STEAMER r. V. ARROwsMITH,
- FOR COLONIAL BEACH,

SWIFT PALACE STEAMER T. V. ARROwsMITH,
- FOR COLONIAL BEACH,
SUNDAY, JUNE 49,
FROM tthst ferry wharf. at s 40 q. m, sharp Fare
round rip. oOc. children 25c. Daily trips commencing
June % je16-3t
GRAND EXCURSION BY T. VI. HEALY BRANCH
~ IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE to River View,
WARRINGTON makes two trips. Leaves Georgetown
Tickets so cents ""A'' ~ O. A je16-st:
STEAMER CORCORAN WILL MAKE TWO SPECIAL
- trlps to Marshall Hall FRIDAY, the 18th and
SATURDAY, the 18th June Leave wharf at foot of
7th ST. at 10 a. m and =. m returning at and 10
r.. IN.
Families wishing to can enjoy day evening at the
above delightful resort where every accommodation
and facility viii be afforded for comfort and pleasure
Meals and lunches served 1t all hours. Fare round
trip % cents
On SUNDAY the boat will make two trips at 10 A. m.
and 2;30 p. returning at and p je16-3t
" POPULAR WATERING PLACE
AND EXCURSION RESORT
The swift palace steamer T. V ARROwsMITH. e1-
pressly fitted TOR the service, viii make day
trps TO the Beach Except Saurdays) ON and after
SUNDAY, JUNE 70 Leaves 7th-street ferry wharf at
3 40 - m. 3 hours at the Beach, and home 80
p m. Music, Refreshments, and Meals served on
steamer and at hotel
Fare round trip, so cts. children, 25 cts ie15-2m
FIRST EXCURSION
NATIONAL RIFLES,
Season 1887,
TO MARSHALL HALL.
THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 16.
Tickets 5Oc Steamer Corcoran leaves wharf at 30,
returning at IL je1o-2t
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-06-16

THOSE WHO LEAVE THE CITY during the sum-
mer can have THE STAR mailed to them for any
length of time and the address changed as often
as desired. The subscription must be Invariably
paid in advance
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-06-16

CUTTING Down NExPENsEs.-Attorney-G General Gar
land has issued an order fixing the compensation
OF all assistant district attorneys employed at
fixed salaries for the fiscal year beginning July
next at a rate 20 per cent less than now paid
The order also directs the discharge of all assist
ants whose services can be dispensed with without
detrtment to the public service
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-06-16

DAY RIDGE BAY RIDGE
SUNDAY, JUNE 49,
SUNDAY NEXT SUNDAY NEXT
And Daily and Sunday thereafter trains will run to
BAY RIDGE! BAY RIDGE!
THE QUEEN RESORT OF THE CHESAPEAKE
DAILY AND SUNDAY. DAILY AND SUNDAY.
RAILROAD EXTENDED DIRECT To PAVuIONS-
GREAT IMPROVEMENTS. EAST TRAINS.
Trains leave B. and Depot during week at 9:l5 am
AIS and 5:15 pm
Sundays at 10 In, 2, 3, and pm.
GREAT MOUNTED SWORD CONTEST.
THURSDAY, FRIDAY. and SATURDAY,
June 2:3 "a. 2..
Contestants: DUNCAN c. ROSS. SERGT WALSH,
CAPT p ST. CLAIR. CAPT. GAR
RIQCES, CAPT. ORLOFSKY.
ROUND TRIP. ROUND TRIP
81 81 81 81 81 81 81 81 81 81 81 81
W. n CLEMENTS. C. Il LORD,
tel4ft Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-06-16

MRS. CLEVELAND visited the New York State
Normal School at Oswego yesterday morning, at
tended a lunch given in her honor by Alice daugh-
ter OF Justice Churchill, in the afternoon and
with party OF friends enjoyed an excursion on
Lake Ontario In the evening
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-06-16

UNACCLIMATED RESIDENTS AT KEY WEST.-Acting
surgeon-General Stoner yesterday wrote to the
president OF the board OF health at Key West Fla.
requesting information in regard to the number Of
unaccl1mated persons living In that city, and as to
Wnat steps have been taken for their transfer to
unanected districts. Dry TOrtugas and Egmont
Keys nave been mentioned as the best places for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-06-16

AMONG THE PRESIDENTS CALLERS to-day were
senator Ransom, Representative Henderson, Col
rector Cra1ge, of North Carolina; Commissioner
WeDD, Assistant POstmaSter-G General stevenson,
>. w. HOlcombe, chief clerk OF the Bureau of Edu-
cation; Commissioner of Education Dawson and
=: =. Ellis, with E. h. McCaleb and B. r. FOrman,
OF New Orleans
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17
his long-distance rides. He rides 70, LIS

his long-distance rides. He rides fos hs
health.
In the lower house there are great num-
Der of members who keep horses and ride
them; but the latest additions to the eques-
trian school are the Washington newspaper
correspondents. Within the last month a
club of at least fifteen well-known journal
lists of all Sizes weights and styles have taken
lessons in horseback riding. 1t is one of the
rules that they shall meet certain number
of times each week at the unearthly hour of
six in the morning For the first week the
average attendance amounted to about
twelve, but since that time it has dwindled
down until the cavalcade numbers when it
starts only about five. AS the club returns
from the morning canter the delinquent
members generally meet them on the way
home.
One of the results of this epidemic OF
horseback riding is large sale of liniments
and rubbing mixtures reported from the
drug stores. 1t is also said that several ap-
plications for patents to make riding easy
and comfortable have been filed at the
patent office, but am afraid the last are
only cruel rumors gotten up to discourage
WHIT is now the rage. JOHN s. SHRIvER.
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the loan got very angry with me year
or two later, because / answered ques-
ton he put to me and did not give him
some good advice. 1t came about in this
way. Legal tenders and greenbacks
have never been the currency in Califor-
mia, but gold and silver coins have been
the money used by all classes. At the
time 1 speak of gold was at a premium
of from five to eight per cent over silver.
Business men, however, received silver
in small amounts at its face value. Peo-
pie having gold would sell it for silver
for the sake of the premium, as silver
answered just as well for all small pur-
chases. The result was that money bro
kers, as they called themselves, opened
places all over the city for the purpose
of buying and selling silver and gold.
A number of such places were opened
in the Chinese quarter, and among them
the Ly Wing Sung Kee firm did the
principal business.
In one of the windows of his store All
Hueng displayed few hundred dollars in
silver and gold as sign that he was a
money changer. The window was pro-
tected from any would-be robbers by an
iron grating. One day he asked me
why my people (meaning Americans)
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17
CHINESE TRAITS.
THEIR BUSINESS CAPACITY AND
VENERATION FOR LEARNING.
A San Francisco Bank Saved from Failure
by Banker All Hueng-Borrowing and
Lending on a Lottery System-Invest-
ments Made in Precious Stones.
tCOpyri0bted. 1851

During many years experience as in
terpreter of Chinese in the courts had
opportunities of learning a great deal
about the character and usages of
that people. l have been particularly
impressed by their business capacity.
The Chinese in California do not de-
post their savings in our banks, but
leave their surplus earnings with some
storekeeper for safety until they are
ready to send the money to China. The
storekeeper does not pay the depositor
any interest on the contrary, he charges
him a small sum for taking care of
the money. The result is that some
of the principal merchants in San
Francisco have a large amount of
money in their hands all the time.
The danger of being robbed is
very slight, as all the employees and
attaches of the store sleep there, and
there is no time, day or night, but what
some one is awake and moving about.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17
MILITARY ORDERS.
How the Volunteer Soldiers Were Handled
by Green Officers.

How the Volunteer Soldiers Were Handled
by Green Onicers.
Our volunteer soldiers had, for the most
part, no knowledge of tactics at the time of
their enlistment, and were differed by men
almost as "green" as themselves. The his
torian of an Indiana regiment reports few
commands given by different officers when
they undertook for the first time to get their
men into marching order. They have the
merit of being ineligible, though not ex-
actly regular.
"Get in two lines, one behind the other |"
"Fall in here, boys, in two rows, like In
dians!'
Come up sideways, with your faces in
this directiOnp'
"Now, march in stringr'
"Step over sideways, Lige, and march
backward four feet ~
Come around to the left, like barn
doorp
By sort of mutual understanding of each
other, the officers and men, assisted by the
adjutant, got into a pretty fair line of three
to five deep, and as we were not to receive a
charge from the enemy, we cared less for its
military exactness than for its rugged out
line 1t looked as rugged and grand as a
mountain range.-EIchange.
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The money is generally kept in fire.

The money is generally kept IN nre-
proof safe or vault
In the summer of 1875, when the Bank
of California suspended, there was
panic in money circles in San Francisco,
and exorbitant rates of interest were
offered for ready money by parties hav-
ing plenty of collateral or security to
guarantee the same, but it was almost i'm
possible to obtain money anywhere to
meet the pressure. A run was made by
depositors on all the savings banks and
institutions, and the banks were COM
PEELED, in order to save themselves, to
take advantage of the time clause and
required depositors to give a months
notice.
A panic ensued among the deposltors
and bank books were offered for sale
at ten, fifteen, twenty, and even twenty
five per cent. discount, although the
banks, without exception, proved sol
vent. There was one exception among
the banks that took advantage of the time
clause, and that bank, having a large
amount of ready money in its vaults,
determined to cash all depositors' de-
mands on sight, trusting that a reaction
would set in before it's funds were ex-
hausted; but in this it was mistaken,
and soon found that it's funds were
getting low while the call was kept up.
1t was fact known to all bank officers
that large amount of ready money was
lying idle all the time in the Chinese
quarters, and the president of the bank
1 refer to called on me to learn, if posi-
BILE, who the principal holders of money
were among the Chinese. referred him
to All Hueng, of the Ly Wing Sung Kee
firm, and the result was that All Hueng
promised to lend the bank 100000 in
gold coin and have the money ready as
soon as the securities could be examined
and passed upon.
The bank owned real estate and mort
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amount would answer ~
as well. told him that
it showed passers-by
that the proprietor had capital sufficient
to do large business, and besides which
customers would have confidence in a
man having so much ready money and
would not be afraid to transact business
with him. All Hueng remarked that he
thought he could make better show of
money than any of my people did.
The next day he got an extra iron graf
ing and placed it inside the window ;
then he commenced piling up stacks of
$50 pieces that kept a crowd around his
window constantly gloating at the wealth
displayed. 1t proved good advertise
ment, as his brokerage business more
than doubled in the next few days.
About that time the city and county
assessors in making their rounds called
at the store. In answer to their ques-
tions All Hueng said that he did not have
quite as much stock of merchandise
on hand as he had the year previous, but
he was willing to be assessed at the same
sum as then. They accepted his state
ment as far as the stock was con-
cerned and then went outside and counted
through the window the stacks of $40
pieces. After estimating the amount in
sight they again entered the store and
notified All Hueng that his taxes for
ready money on hand would amount
to $400. With all his shrewdness All
Hueng when making his display had not
thought of the assessors and he blamed
me for not putting him on his guard in
that respect and it was months after that
before he got over his bad feeling.
The Chinese have way of borrowing
and lending money under a system that
they call a Woo-ey that allows its
members to borrow money in a stated
sum and repay it by installments. Any
member of Woo-ey who takes share
and does not wish to borrow himself
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17
LOST HIS DINNER.
An Incident Showing How the Unex-
pected May Happen.


pected May Happen.
The risk of losing just at the moment of
eager expectation is realized, it seems, by
frogs as well as by men. Mr.. w. A. Smith,
in his "Benderloch," relates the following
encounter between large earth-worm and
a very hungry frog.
The frog made repeated and desperate
efforts to swallow the worm by great gulps,
the worm taking advantage of the periodi-
cally relaxed hold to withdraw its already
engulfed end as far as possible.
After heightened struggle, the halfsuffo-
Gated frog had managed to gorge about one
half the wriggling and struggling creature,
when the latter reached the stem of rose
bush, despite the strenuous endeavor of the
frog to prevent it.
No sooner had the worm reached this, than,
using it as point of support, it carefully and
gradually wound itself around it, until It sue
ceeded in withdrawing its whole length from
the Giving tomb" and coiling itself in safety
round the stem.
Froggy sat still for some seconds, dis
turbed in its mind and its interior, and then
hoped disconsolately away.-Erchange
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Ell, anu t1dJ SAME night,
by the help of attorneys
on either side, the security was furnished
and the 100000 in gold coin delivered
at the bank. The money was borrowed
for one month, with the privilege of a
second month if wanted. For the loan
thus made the bank agreed to pay the
exorbitant sum of five per cent. a
month, amounting to $4,000 for the use
of the money for thirty days.
The next morning the cashier posted
up notice that no deposits ac0uld be receioed
,ohile the run lasted, as the time of the at
taches would be fully taken up in paying
out money.
Two days later the reaction as far as
that bank was concerned set in. Deposit
Ors who had withdrawn their money
brought it back. Depositors in other
banks who had sold their pass-books TO
spectators brought in their money to
deposit, and the run was as great to de-
posit as it had been to draw out. Ten or
twelve days after the loan had been made
the bank offered to pay it back if the
Chinese would make a rebate on the in
terest of one and one-half per cent, but
the offer was refused. Heavy as the
interest was that the bank had to paw
it gained largely ON the transaction, as
the run commenced at nearly the end of a
quarter and all who drew their money
out lost the interest on the same for
nearly three months then the bank not
only gained many new depositors, but
received large amount of money on de-
post that it was enabled to loan out
to good advantage.
This same All Hueng that negotiated
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obtains good interest on the money he
invests, The plan of Woo-ey is as fol-
lows:
All Sing wants to borrow 800 and re-
pay it in installments, so he starts a
Woo-ey; his first step is to find twenty
persons who are willing to take So
share in a 800 Woo-ey. All Sing is
known as the Woo-ey Tow, or head of
the Woo-ey; the shareholders are known
as Woo-ey Chi, or children of the Woo-ey.
The Woo-ey lasts for twenty months /;
each Woo-ey Chi pays in So to the
Woo-ey Tow, so that All Sing obtains his
800. At the end of the month All Sing
goes to each of the shareholders and
asks for bids for the next loan each men,
Der writes his name and the amount of
interest he is willing to pay on slip of
paper. Every member has the right of
borrowing money once during the
Woo-ey. After the bids are all received
they are opened and read and the money
lent to the highest bidder. We will sup
pose that two per cent. is the highest bid.
All Sing, who now pays the first install
ment, has to payin the full amount of S.,
while the others deduct the two per cent.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17

Mr.. Labouchere tells lat when he was
theatre manager he once produced play by
Charles Reade. The opening night the au-
thor and the manager sat together in box.
The play did not take well. "They seem
V, whe es the audience became psacuarS a.
monstrative in their hostility. What of
that ?" returned the illustrious writer. IF
you want to please such q public as this you
should not come TO me for play."-Ex.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17
MORE WAYS THAN ONE, ETC.

Senator Evarts startled Washington the
other day by appearing there in new hat.
"Where there's will there's way" He
has never been able to abbreviate his sem
fences by punctuation, so he takes this method
of becoming gentleman of 'the period"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17
The Manakin Talks.

Marshall P. Wilders latest hit is the toast
which the modest Irishman drank to the
Englishman: Here's to you as good as you
are, and here's to me as bad as am; but as
good as you are and as bad as am, Pm as
good as you are as bad as l am "-Erchanqe.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17
A FIGURATIvE CoURTsHIP.

The young proprietor of a bee farm said
that his operations embraced about LIS
pounds of honey per night, He married on
the strength of this assertion, but OH wifely
investigation was forced to admit that he
only referred to their courtship. She forgave
him; but he was closely pressed, wasn't he?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17
NOTHING AIRY ABOUT vULGAR1rY.

How disagreeable must it be to Ninny Van
Zandt to reflect in her enforced fast, that
her constitution is robust enough to support
her for days to come. She can't be ethereal.
Grossness does not volatilize
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17

We feign the good of vanished days,
By mockeries resembling it;
Hypocrisy to virtue pays
A tribute, by assembling it.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17
JINGLEs AND JOKELETS.
CHAS. NJ. SNYDER.

NOT LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON.
The candidate has found of late
1t doesn't gain him Office
Because he had mighty dad
Who left his son q novice
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17
A HOBBY RIDER.

Rider Haggard is coming over here to ride
a hobby-an English hobby. He proposes
to lecture. If he journeys among some Of
the 'hard-pan" communities of our realistic
occident he will return "Haggard Rider"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17

Pray tell us why a chilling frost
Sometimes surprises May days;
Or if it's stolen, strayed or lost,
This brand.new South of Grady's.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17

A contemporary speaks slightngly of the
ballet girls; it says they put on airs. Don't
discourage them for Heavens sake let them
put on something. [Copyrighted.l
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17
BAD ORTHODOXY.

70 tell woman that she can't
Is faulty orthodoxy;
For Did said no. So Miss Van Zandt
Got married then by proxy.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17

ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE PUGILIsTs.
When bigger men inflict the gloom
officers and taunts provoking,
How naturally we assume
That they are only joking!
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17
AN ADEQUATE REASON.

The reason of many failures is explained.
The young man looking at the prospects of
an enterprise says, Ihave half mind to try
it." He then proceeds on this principle.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17

With philosophic mind we trust
There lies some good in living;
And SO endeayor to adjust
Misfortune to Thanksgiving.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17
THE LATEST FAD.
WASHINGTON SOCIETY RUN MAD
ON HORSEBACK RIDING.

Some of the Noted Equestrians of the Cap
ital-Historian Bancroft and Librarian
SpoffOrd the Pioneers in This Exercise
Members of the Cabinet as Riders.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17
Not Down in the Curriculum.

There seems to be general revival of edu-
cational interest. There were 10000 people
present when Yale and Harvard played foot
ball the other day.-Exchange.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17
A LA GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN.

Our extremists usually go too far. They
have no following beyond their own coat
tails.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17
WILL HE BE A SIR JOHNI

We all agree in saying that John L. Sulli-
van before his trip to England was be-
nighted man. But the wonder is will he
come back to us beknighted?
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17
AN EXPENSIVE SOVEREIGN.

AN EXPENSIVE SOVEREIGN.
Old King Coal
Is a mercenary soul,
And mercenary soul is he
For when the wind blows
And it halls and it SHOWS,
He's as costly as king can be.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17
A KNELL OF ILLUSION.

1t is not always happiness
When laughter does the most abound,
For thus do cynic roues express,
The culver of some ancient wound.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17

We hear that thought is the lightning of
thesoul." This explains the expression strik-
ing Thought"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-12-17

OUR BOSOM FRIEND.
"Ah Sin" and "Wun Lung" ought to be
very dear to us-they are our bosom friends.
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cages on city property
for more than five times
the amount to be loan
ed, and that same night,